Obscured by Clouds. The rough and ready blog of a cloud benighted biologist and amateur astronomer. Astroblog will cover my interests in astronomy, biology and Life, the Universe and Everything.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Southern Skywatch August 2009 edition is now up!

The eastern horizon on August 13 at 6:00 am AEST showing the Moon, the Pleiades, Venus and Mars all lined up.

The August edition of Southern Skywatch is now up. There is the occulation of Sigma Scorpii, the opposition of Jupiter, Mars and Venus in the morning sky and the return of of Mercury to the evening sky with close approaches to Regulus and Saturn. There is also the Persiid meteor shower.